They did in my town the other day... because the police took down the cameras after the town voted on removing them.

To be fair, you went to war with Iraq due to faked and purposely misinterpreted intel. Not even that well faked either: much of the rest of the world called bullshit.

You did almost nuke various countries, including your own, because Strategic Air Command couldn't tell the difference between jamming and a solar storm, a jumpy guard saw a bear climbing a fence, somebody thought swans were Soviet aircraft, Nixon was a mean drunk, the moon, bombers kept dropping nukes by accident, an AT&T switch failed in Colorado, bomb detectors couldn't tell the difference between a nuclear attack and a power outage, someone accidentally loaded a training scenario onto a NORAD computer, a couple of those NORAD computers had bad chips, etc.

The best irony is unintentional self deprecating irony.

HAL 9000 was given a starship.

AI can only start a nuclear war if someone gives it launch control over nuclear missiles. A coin flipping device could also start a nuclear war if someone gave it launch control over nuclear missiles.* If a coin flipping device can trigger the doom scenario just as well as AI is AI really the problem?

Who wizzed in your wheaties?

And I stand by what I said. Practically no phone that still works at all does it at the low level of a capacitor anymore.

All of the US states I cared to check had y=mx+b in the curriculum by grade 8 at the latest. Even the shitty ones where you learn it's god's will.

Uh huh.

You're long on claiming special knowledge and awfully short on demonstrating it. If you disagree then you don't know how it works.

You don't lose your PhD for getting scooped. You also don't lose it for scooping someone, even if you were "inspired" by their unpublished work. Ideas aren't protected. If you send them off to some corporation without an NDA, or a sufficiently unethical colleague, they'll get swiped with no repercussions except maybe distaste from the community. If it's a normal corp they might even tell you you can't publish your own work.

PhDs are revoked very seldomly and you generally have to do something bad relating to your own thesis to lose one.

Those were honorary degrees. He did not lose his actual PhD, in education. That should tell you how hard it is. It happens extremely rarely and pretty much always for plagiarizing or faking data in your thesis. You certainly don't lose one because you got scooped.

Engineers are well aware that time exists. The thing they forget is that people who don't know the specific set of tools they learned in university or were forced to learn for their job exist.

I remember the horrors of engineers writing large GUI programs in Matlab.

Why is it silly? It's perfectly reasonable for lots of things.

The reason it's used a lot in education is because you're not teaching kids to write embedded programs for microcontrollers. You're teaching them how to program computers. The computer they're programming just happens to be a $5 one that can do things kids thing are cool like making animated patterns with LEDs.

Exactly. For example, spreadsheets were often used day to day but the accountants kept the actual books as books and had the final word. That changed over time, only after spreadsheets proved out (and got the bugs out).

Also, humans stayed in the loop. Sure there were occasional funnies like a medical database claiming a few male patients had a history of pregnancy, but humans were in the loop and cited those as obvious errors. There were still backup paper records to fall back on.

But a lot of people when they hear someone say "it's nowhere near ready for prime time" will claim the person is saying "It'll never work".

Back in the day when the "Board of Education" was an actual wooden board.

If they really wanted to serve the user, it would understand "Hey Google, lockdown now" and would power off and require a PIN to restart.